alt Hacker News> Or (b) that he was personally downloading porn either at the office or a corp VPN
Man, if Facebook is hiring people this dumb, it's going to make me feel a lot worse about getting rejected after interviewing there.
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I worked there for years. I assure you, based on my experience, that there are a lot of dumb people there making > $500k/year.
This person is supposedly an executive. I doubt most executive could pass an FAANG technical interview.
They are, they probably just did slightly better at regurgitating leetcode problems than you
Did you apply for the VR porn training team?
I wouldn’t, lack of moral fiber is a key factor they look for
It’s a massive company, with more than 75k employees. At that scale you have to have a lot of dumb people
How is their network security that lax? I feel like if I tried run a torrent at work, netops would be hunting my ass down immediately.
It's even worse that they overpay people who do this type of thing while at work.
Just tell yourself that they rejected you because they thought you had too strong a moral compass and you wouldn't click with the company's overall lack of ethics
Does anyone honestly believe that Zuck doesn't have his own history with filesharing? Any computer nerd from that time would have deep knowledge of filesharing.
Who'd have thought a Meta exec would be arrogant enough to assume they can get away with this (!!). /s
Mate, I got rejected by Cambridge University.
I've lived in and around Cambridge for a very long time now. I've met a lot of Cambridge undergrads and graduates. Let me tell you: they are a mixed bag.
Don't misunderstand me: there are some very smart people at Cambridge University. Very smart indeed. And I think if you took any cohort from Cambridge Uni versus a similar cohort from another university you'd certainly find that, against most universities, the Cambridge cohort would be smarter on average. In fact the place is genuinely awash with very smart people literally everywhere.
But that doesn't mean there aren't plenty of people that went to Cambridge who clearly found a way to blag their way through the interview process that may not have been particularly closely correlated with their intellect. The same will be true of Meta, Google, etc. I swear, the interview processes at these companies are probably more of a sop to the egos of company leadership and people who already work there than they are any more effective at filtering down to good talent than less byzantine and overwrought hiring processes.
You just have to make your peace with it.